WICHITA, KAN. – A Kansas City woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling heroin that caused a user’s near-fatal overdose, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

Loretta Gilliard, 34, Kansas City, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin. The investigation began when a user from Overland Park, Kan., bought heroin from Gilliard and then overdosed and lost consciousness. Emergency medical technicians responded and saved the user’s life by administering an opioid reversing agent called Narcan. Investigators learned that Gilliard had sold heroin to the user more than 100 times, usually two to four times a week. Investigators made controlled buys from Gilliard.

Sentencing will be set for a later date. Both parties have agreed to recommend 84 months in federal prison. McAllister commended the Drug Enforcement Administration and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Catania for their work on the case.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An attorney suing Gov. Eric Greitens over his use of a message-deleting app is seeking Attorney General Josh Hawley’s records from his investigation into the controversy.

Attorney Mark Pedroli sent Hawley’s office a subpoena Monday seeking all documentation of the attorney’s general’s investigation.

Hawley announced in March he found no evidence of wrongdoing in Greitens’ and his top staff’s use of the Confide app, which automatically deletes texts after they are read.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch report s Pedroli and attorney Ben Sansone contend the use of the app violated Missouri’s open records laws.

Pedroli said records from the attorney general’s office will help him further his own investigation.

Hawley’s spokeswoman, Mary Compton, said Tuesday the attorney general’s office is reviewing the subpoena.

BAZAAR, Kan. (AP) — Chase County officials say a man died after a horse rolled over him during a ranching accident.

Sheriff Rich Dorneker says emergency responders were called Monday night to a ranch south of Bazaar, an unincorporated town near Emporia.

The Emporia Gazette reports responders found 58-year-old Clifford Cole injured after an accident while working with cattle on horseback.

Dorneker says Cole and another person were moving the cattle when a calf ran in front of Cole’s horse. The horse hit the calf and Cole was thrown off. Dorneker says the horse rolled over Cole twice.

Dorneker says the other person attempted to give Cole medical attention. Cole was taken to Newman Regional Health, where he was later pronounced dead.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A forensic examiner in St. Louis is extracting data from the cellphone of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, days before the governor goes to trial on a felony invasion of privacy charge.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the examiner was working Tuesday in a locked courtroom with yellow paper taped over the windows.

An investigator for the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office had cited what he believed was suspicious activity in a Gmail account after an investigation of Greitens was announced earlier this year.

Defense lawyers on Monday filed a motion to quash a sealed search warrant and stop any forensic exam of the phone.

Greitens is accused of taking an unauthorized photo of a woman who was at least partially nude. He’s admitted having an extramarital affair with her in 2015.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s decision on the Iran nuclear deal (all times local):

2:20 p.m.
President Donald Trump is railing against the Iran nuclear agreement as “a horrible, one-sided deal” based on a lie.

Trump’s comments Tuesday come as he announces plans to follow through on his campaign threat to pull out of the landmark nuclear accord with Iran during a televised address at the White House.

Trump says that if he allowed the deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race.

He also says a constructive deal could easily have been struck at the time, but it wasn’t.

Trump is calling Iran a “regime of great terror.”
And he says that “no action taken by the regime has been more dangerous than its pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them.”
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JOHNSON COUNTY — One person died in an accident just before 1a.m. Tuesday in Johnson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Justin Davis, 49, Overland Park, was north bound on Kansas 7 and lost control of the vehicle in the transition to eastbound Kansas 10. The motorcycle traveled into median and driver was ejected.

Davis was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Frontier Forensics.

By CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN

The Trump administration has nixed Kansas’ idea of a three-year lifetime cap on Medicaid benefits.

Gov. Jeff Colyer had wanted to include the limit in a remake of the state’s privatized Medicaid system, KanCare. He also wants work requirements for non-disabled KanCare beneficiaries.

Late last month, he walked back his stance on pursuing a lifetime cap, while sticking by the work proposal. Both ideas had faced criticism from health care advocates who fear they would reduce poor people’s access to doctors and medication.

In a press release Monday, Colyer said the call to back off from a three-year limit came after conversations with the federal agency in charge of that program made clear the Trump administration wouldn’t allow it.

But the federal government does support work requirements for Medicaid, which Colyer highlighted as a win.

“We are pleased,” he said. “This important provision will help improve outcomes and ensure that Kansans are empowered to achieve self-sufficiency.”

The top administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed the agency’s decision against a three-year Medicaid limit in a talk Monday to hospital administrators and in a letter to Kansas officials the same day.

That agency has granted requests from other states for certain eligibility limits on Medicaid, including work requirements.

“In every case,” the CMS wrote to Kansas health officials, “these incentive structures are designed to engage beneficiaries in ways that promote positive health and well-being.”

The advocacy group Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, which promotes expanding Medicaid coverage to around 150,000 more people in the state, applauded the federal agency’s Monday announcement in a statement that called the three-year cap “the most harmful” part of Colyer’s vision for KanCare.

It’s an “arbitrary bureaucratic time limit,” the group wrote and would risk interrupting someone’s insurance, including “in the middle of a critical course of treatment.”

Colyer, a physician and a chief architect of privatizing Medicaid in Kansas, ultimately needs to win over not just the federal government but also the Legislature to move ahead with work requirements. That’s because lawmakers passed a budget this month that blocks Colyer from doing so without their permission.

Celia Llopis-Jepsen is a reporter for the Kansas News Service. You can reach her on Twitter @Celia_LJ.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The former Jackson County sheriff’s one-time girlfriend has dropped her lawsuit against the county.

The Kansas City Star reports that county leaders approved a settlement Monday with Christine Lynde, who worked as an assistant for Mike Sharp while he was sheriff. No money will change hands.

Sharp resigned last month after court documents said he took Lynde on taxpayer-funded trips and approved so many raises for her that she became the highest-paid civilian sheriff’s office employee. The documents also revealed that Sharpe discussed the case with Lynde when he shouldn’t have.

Lynde sued the county in 2016, alleging sexual harassment by two female co-workers, as well as Sharp’s then second-in-command. Taxpayers had racked up nearly $400,000 in legal bills defending the case at the time of Sharp’s resignation last month.

NOEL, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say an Arkansas woman has drowned after her canoe capsized in southwest Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the woman as 50-year-old Ann Theile, of Bella Vista, Arkansas. The patrol says she was floating Monday near the town of Noel when she came upon a tree that was across the Elk River. She then stood up in the canoe, causing it to tip over, and became entangled in the tree.